Originally published at: Opening an intricately-folded "locked" letter from c.1700 | Boing Boing
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Poor Jacques, he probable felt they were ghosting him!
Interesting they pulled this off with XRay. My first thought was terahertz scanning (in the mid-90s it appeared on the scene in reading closed envelopes)…
What is TeraHertz Imaging? Can We Read Closed Books Using It? - OS Busters
Highly recommend reading the paper linked in the article! It’s quite approachable, and has lots of interesting details and images.
At the current scanning resolution, our texturing results are comparable to a 668 dpi digital image.
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“an antique trunk containing more than 2,500 pieces of undelivered mail”
sounds like excellent plot device for an episode of
“what we do in the shadows”
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That’s a click out of one… two is binding… nothing on three… 
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With the help of a tool made by Bosnian Bill…
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Recently, conservationists examining an antique trunk containing more than 2,500 pieces of undelivered mail
World’s Worst Post Person?
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“This is f…g I am writing to you a second time”
Wait…did the modern scientists delete an expletive, or were they unable to decipher the word?
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The “f…g” isn’t actually in the transcript and translation attached to the article (in the supplementary information). Those just have a gap, where there is a hole in the letter.
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Jacques Sennacques was no doubt getting a little annoyed. This was his second request which went unanswered, of course. Is Jacques sending it by the same unreliable carrier each time? What does one do in the 1600s when recalcitrant or corrupt carriers consistently hoard the mail?
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